Palace Square, connecting Nevsky Prospekt with the Palace Bridge leading to Vasilevsky Island is the central city 
square of St. Petersburg and of the former Russian empire. It was the setting of many events of world-wide significance including Bloody Sunday in 1905 and the October Revolution of 1917. The center of the square is marked with the Alexander Column. This red granite column (the tallest of its kind in the world) is 47.5 metres high. It is set so well that not attachment to the base is needed. The earliest and most celebrated building on the square is the baroque Winter Palace of Russian tsars, built between 1754 and 1762. The palace is now part of a complex of buildings known as the State Hermitage Museum, which holds one of the world’s greatest collections of art. As part of the Museum, many of the Winter Palace’s 1057 halls and rooms are open to the public. We spent the afternoon after our city tour exploring the exhibitions in the Hermitage Museum.
square of St. Petersburg and of the former Russian empire. It was the setting of many events of world-wide significance including Bloody Sunday in 1905 and the October Revolution of 1917. The center of the square is marked with the Alexander Column. This red granite column (the tallest of its kind in the world) is 47.5 metres high. It is set so well that not attachment to the base is needed. The earliest and most celebrated building on the square is the baroque Winter Palace of Russian tsars, built between 1754 and 1762. The palace is now part of a complex of buildings known as the State Hermitage Museum, which holds one of the world’s greatest collections of art. As part of the Museum, many of the Winter Palace’s 1057 halls and rooms are open to the public. We spent the afternoon after our city tour exploring the exhibitions in the Hermitage Museum.The State Hermitage Museum boasts a collection second in size only to that of the Louvre. The vast Hermitage collections are displayed in six buildings, and include noted works of art from Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, van Dyck, Rembrandt, Poussin , Monet, Renoir, van Gogh, Picasso and Matisse. There are several collections that also include Russian imperial regalia, and an assortment of Faberge jewellery.
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